pixel art

When we first found out about Sega and WayForward's Thor movie tie-in videogame, our expectations were mutated by a weird nostalgia for a simpler era of pixelated action. We love current-gen console tech as much as the next non-luddite, but 1UP's gallery of Nintendo DS sprites from WayForward speaks to our undying love of pixel art with the power of Mjolnir itself...

If you're one of the nearly 2 million Minecraft fans to have jumped into the sandbox building game's pandemonium of pixels of late, you've doubtless indulged in the Alpha version's character customization feature. While not the most sophisticated graphically, there's a certain appeal to the simplicity of skinning your blocky avatar as a favorite comic book character for open-ended adventuring... R